Tag Archives: Liturgy

Archives from Static site

Please see Static Website on its way out. On this page, I will reproduce the most important texts which are going to be lost from early March this year. Hostpapa have refunded the subscription they wanted from me for 2026-2029. I thank … Continue reading

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Static Website on its way out

I have cancelled the website As the Sun in its Orb for reasons of the host’s subscriptions tripling over the past couple of years. Here are the two main pages, but many of the links will soon be dead. If … Continue reading

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Sarum Ordo 2023-2024

I have just compiled a Sarum ordo for 2023-2024 in collaboration with Fr Andrew Scurr following the perpetual calendar of Dr William Renwick and the Pie. Please notify me in case of errors. https://civitas-dei.eu/Ordo_Sarum_2023-2024.pdf

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A Monty Python Sketch?

Today, I watched an interview with John Cleese who is most known for his role in the Monty Python shows and as Q in the later James Bond films. ‘I couldn’t stop laughing… All these people in these silly costumes, … Continue reading

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Liturgical Nihilism

For those who read French, I draw your attention to Le pape François laisse entendre que l’attachement au rite tridentin constitue un produit du nihilisme. This is a fascinating article from the French Catholic periodical La Croix by the theologian … Continue reading

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Holy Week 2022

In two days is Palm Sunday and then the profoundly mysterious Holy Week containing ceremonies that we celebrate just once a year. I have to look through the ceremonies in case I have become “rusty” since last year. The space … Continue reading

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Self-Effacement and the Liturgy

This is a really impressive article by Archbishop Mark Haverland, Metropolitan of the Original Province of the Anglican Catholic Church. He is also my Ordinary and therefore my father-in-Christ. He has written this article in his blog Anglican Catholic Liturgy … Continue reading

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Straf! Straf! Straf alles!

A comment from Patrick Sheridan (who is open about his identity) brought me to look at his blog where he writes only rarely. I quoted the Naval officer on the subject of excessive punishment of sailors and its negative effect … Continue reading

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Dom Alcuin Reid on Traditionis Custodes

On my daily rounds of my bookmarked websites, I often find interesting things in The New Liturgical Movement. We are indeed far from the heady days of 2005, the year when Benedict XVI was elected and I joined the TAC. … Continue reading

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Terrific Interview

This is a terrific interview of Robert Moynihan. He thinks this new challenge will cause the movement for the traditional liturgy to awaken and grow. He talks quite a lot about Annibale Bugnini, the bête noire of the liturgical reform. … Continue reading

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